Job
Job 1
Last Updated: October 10, 2026There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.There were born to him seven sons and three daughters.His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female...
Job 2
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Again, on the day when God’s sons came to present themselves before the LORD, Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD.The LORD said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered the LORD, and said, “From going back and forth on the earth, and from walking up and down in...
Job 3
Last Updated: October 10, 2026After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.Job answered:“Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’Let that day be darkness. Don’t let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.Let darkness and the shadow of...
Job 4
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,“If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?Behold, you have instructed many, you have strengthened the weak hands.Your words have supported him who was falling, you have made the feeble knees firm.But now it has come to you, and you faint....
Job 5
Last Updated: October 10, 2026“Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any...
Job 6
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Then Job answered,“Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, therefore my words have been rash.For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array...
Job 7
Last Updated: October 10, 2026“Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages,so I am made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.When I lie down, I say, ‘When will I...
Job 8
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,“How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication...
Job 9
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Then Job answered,“Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God?If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.God is wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against him and prospered?He removes the mountains, and they don’t...
Job 10
Last Updated: October 10, 2026“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands,...
Job 11
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered,“Shouldn’t the multitude of words be answered? Should a man full of talk be justified?Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, will no man make you ashamed?For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure. I am clean in your eyes.’But oh that God would speak, and open his...
Job 12
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Then Job answered,“No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn’t know such things as these?I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The...
Job 13
Last Updated: October 10, 2026“Behold, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard and understood it.What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.“Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.Oh that you would be completely silent!...
Job 14
Last Updated: October 10, 2026“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?Who can bring a clean thing out of...
Job 15
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,“Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of...
Job 16
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Then Job answered,“I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,but I would strengthen...
Job 17
Last Updated: October 10, 2026“My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct and the grave is ready for me.Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.“Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?For you have hidden their heart from understanding, therefore you will not...
Job 18
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,“How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?You who tear yourself in your anger, will the earth be forsaken for you? Or will the rock be removed out of its place?“Yes, the light of...
Job 19
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Then Job answered,“How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?You have reproached me ten times. You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.If it is true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach,know now that God has subverted...
Job 20
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,“Therefore my thoughts answer me, even by reason of my haste that is in me.I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me.Don’t you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the...
Job 21
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Then Job answered,“Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation.Allow me, and I also will speak. After I have spoken, mock on.As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn’t I be impatient?Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold...
Job 22
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,“Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him that you make your ways perfect?Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into...
Job 23
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Then Job answered,“Even today my complaint is rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!I would set my cause in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.I would know the words which he would answer...
Job 24
Last Updated: October 10, 2026“Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days?There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.They turn the needy out of the way. The...
Job 25
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,“Dominion and fear are with him. He makes peace in his high places.Can his armies be counted? On whom does his light not arise?How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?Behold, even the moon has no brightness, and the...
Job 26
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Then Job answered,“How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength!How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!To whom have you uttered words? Whose spirit came out of you?“The departed spirits tremble, those beneath the waters and all that...
Job 27
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Job again took up his parable, and said,“As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter(for the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);surely my lips will not speak unrighteousness, neither will my tongue utter deceit.Far be...
Job 28
Last Updated: October 10, 2026“Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine.Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted out of the ore.Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.He breaks open a shaft away from...
Job 29
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Job again took up his parable, and said,“Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,as I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was in my tent,when the...
Job 30
Last Updated: October 10, 2026“But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I considered unworthy to put with my sheep dogs.Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of...
Job 31
Last Updated: October 10, 2026“I made a covenant with my eyes; how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?Doesn’t he see my ways, and count all my steps?“If I...
Job 32
Last Updated: October 10, 2026So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job. His wrath was kindled because he justified himself rather than God.Also his wrath was kindled against his three friends, because...
Job 33
Last Updated: October 10, 2026“However, Job, please hear my speech, and listen to all my words.See now, I have opened my mouth. My tongue has spoken in my mouth.My words will utter the uprightness of my heart. That which my lips know they will speak sincerely.The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives...
Job 34
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Moreover Elihu answered,“Hear my words, you wise men. Give ear to me, you who have knowledge.For the ear tries words, as the palate tastes food.Let us choose for us that which is right. Let us know among ourselves what is good.For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, God has taken away my right.Notwithstanding my right...
Job 35
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Moreover Elihu answered,“Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s,’that you ask, ‘What advantage will it be to you? What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’I will answer you, and your companions with you.Look to the skies, and see. See the...
Job 36
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Elihu also continued, and said,“Bear with me a little, and I will show you; for I still have something to say on God’s behalf.I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.For truly my words are not false. One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.“Behold, God is mighty,...
Job 37
Last Updated: October 10, 2026“Yes, at this my heart trembles, and is moved out of its place.Hear, oh, hear the noise of his voice, the sound that goes out of his mouth.He sends it out under the whole sky, and his lightning to the ends of the earth.After it a voice roars. He thunders with the voice of his...
Job 38
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind,“Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?Brace yourself like a man, for I will question you, then you answer me!“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched...
Job 39
Last Updated: October 10, 2026“Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?Can you count the months that they fulfill? Or do you know the time when they give birth?They bow themselves. They bear their young. They end their labor pains.Their young ones become strong. They grow up in...
Job 40
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Moreover the LORD answered Job,“Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”Then Job answered the LORD,“Behold, I am of small account. What will I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will...
Job 41
Last Updated: October 10, 2026“Can you draw out Leviathan with a fish hook, or press down his tongue with a cord?Can you put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook?Will he make many petitions to you, or will he speak soft words to you?Will he make a covenant with you, that you should...
Job 42
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Then Job answered the LORD:“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ therefore I have uttered that which I didn’t understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn’t know.You said, ‘Listen, now, and I will speak;...